English as a New Language

In the Basic Strategies Development class, students are working early in the process of acquiring

English. By the WIDA Can-do standards, they are “entering” at level one and “emerging” at level two. In this class we focus on language development in the context of everyday situations with readings from a variety of sources. We also utilize instructional software titles that aid in language acquisition. Those titles include My Virtual Reading Coach by Mindplay, ESL Reading Smart, and new to 2017-2018, ReadTheory.org. Each of these applications uses student data and metrics to tailor ENL instruction to the individual student.

The International Seminar class includes students who are “developing” and “expanding” their skills in English. This class works on PBLs (Project-Based Learning Projects) in the PNN News Room and Studio to produce a segment for the

World Seminar students shoot a segment called the World Report in the PNN Studio.

PNN News Show called The World Report. Using the PNN model RUNDOWN and SCRIPT, we write and produce stories about what is happening outside the US borders, beyond Bittersweet in other words. This class values the many cultures that come together in the PNN newsroom, and it embraces the experiences these writers have had before they arrived in Mishawaka, Indiana. By counting these experiences and understandings as valued assets, students are able to publish

Good morning, all, and welcome back!
1. Let's resume our research presentations. We will also look at your research papers. And if you have not turned them in already, be sure that your research assignments are complete: outline, note-taking, more note-taking, etc.
2. Please look through Canvas and turn in any assignments you are missing.
3. We will finish up Modern-Day Slavery with a short film and a discussion.

Good morning, all. I am sorry that I could not join you this morning, though I may arrive before class is over. Bukola, Lovepreet, and EJ, if I arrive in time, we will begin your presentations. If not, then we will begin with you on Friday. I hope this is not too inconvenient.
1. I am also sorry about the state of the room too. We started to break it down yesterday afternoon, and we got about half done. On the table, you will see a box with some headphones. Please use one set to complete this Check-in Assignment.
2. Five of you have completed this quiz. As you all know, it is due TODAY. Please complete it right after the check-in. You may use the magazine. Oh, and be sure to do a good job on #9. Read the question carefully and answer it with detailed information from the text.
3. Please resume your work on your research paper and your research presentation. You may work with a partner if it helps. And if you have not turned them in already, be sure that your research assignments are complete: outline, note-taking, more note-taking, etc.

Good morning, everyone, and welcome back! I hope you had a restful weekend. I look forward to hearing about it.
1. How was your weekend, and rescheduling the end-of-the-year party
2. Your last film for 2018. Please upload your Cultural Festival film to Google Drive and turn it in here.
3. Modern Day Slavery Quiz; (to help you with the quiz, you might make a copy of this guide and complete it.)
4. Writer's Workshop: editing your research papers & preparing the presentation;
5. Creating your research presentations...your last project of the year! We will schedule them today.

Good morning, kiddos! Today we are working on our research papers in a workshop format.
1. Let's begin with the first resource note-taking assignment. I asked you to complete a double columned notes document in which you record your thoughts and ideas about a valid resource. Shehed, Bukola, and Tania did well on it. Let them help you get it done today.
2. Here is the second one I asked you to complete. Cynthia did a fine job on hers and can help you with it.
Both of these assignments close at the end of the week, and you may not turn them in after that.
3. When you have completed them and turned them in, you might want to check your progress on these assignments:
.....a. Polishing your thesis statement
.....b. Squaring up your outline
.....d. Reviewing my comments on your D R A F T O 1
4. Readtheory.org What is our next quiz marker?

Happy Monday, everyone!
1. I hope you had a great weekend, and I look forward to hearing about it first thing!
2. Let's do some house-cleaning:
...a. Did everyone complete record their speech in PNN? We will upload them to DRIVE, and you can use the link to turn them in.
...b. How is your progress on Draft 01 in your research paper? I have added Peer Review to it to help you all have a look at the work of your classmates.
...c. I hope that I have had a conference with everyone at this point. If that is not true, please speak up.
3. Where do we pick up in readtheory.org?
4. Welcome to the PNN World Report!

Good morning, all! This is our last day of the week, so let's get to it.
.5. Recording an interview in the PNN Studio
1. Field trip update. (Sorry Tasneem!)
2. I would like to continue our Goals Conferences today.
3. While we are doing that, one on one, you are making sure that you have turned in:
.....a. Polishing your thesis statement
.....b. Refining your note-taking document
.....c. Squaring up your outline
.....d. Submitting D R A F T O 1
.....e. Then, after I have given you feedback on DRAFT 01, turn the next revision in for DRAFT 02
4. Read Theory: let's resume our work
5. PNN World Report: let's resume our work there as well.

Happy Friday everyone, the weekend is finally here.
Today is the last day to complete the tasks under this weeks Module! Notice, I removed the speaking activities from the assignments tab...you're welcome! So far, I have everything graded and entered that I have. If you do not see a grade for something you already completed today, let me know! Mr. McNulty will not be looking at any of these assignments, so if they are not submitted by the end of today, they will remain a zero. So, please get them done and submitted today!
The Agenda:
1. Finish the tasks for this weeks module: Grammar worksheet, 2 reading activities and 2 listening activities (I decided not to require the speaking activities)
2. REVISE!!! If I gave you a grade already, check the assignment. You CAN revise any assignments until the end of today AND receive FULL CREDIT.
Lastly, today is my last day with you all. I want you all to know that I am super grateful for the time I have had here with you all and thank you for welcoming me into this classroom. It has been a great experience for me.
May the odds be ever in your favor and the force be with you. May you live long and prosper.

Good morning everyone and happy Hump Day (Wednesday).
Today's Agenda:
1. Go to the google doc and next to your name, write the name of the two assignments that you are going to complete today. Choose two. Then, scroll to the second list. If you see that I have not written any assignments next to your name, please submit the missing assignments and write the name of them in the google doc as well.
2. Module For This Week 23 April through 27 April: Complete AT LEAST two tasks
Remember, you are responsible for having two assignments from the module submitted each day! These assignments will be graded daily. You have a totally of 7 assignments to complete for the week. Therefore, make sure that you give yourself enough time to complete three one day.
By the end of today, you will have submitted FOUR of the SEVEN tasks, TWO from Monday and TWO from today!
3. Conference with Mr. McNulty: It is critical that you use your time well today and stay on task. Mr. McNulty will be taking you out of the room one by one to have a conference with you about your WIDA results and to set personal goals for future growth.
4. If you happen to be superman or superwoman and complete all of the tasks today, begin revising your mini-research paper.
May the force be with you!

Top of the morning to you (good morning),
welcome back! I hope you all enjoyed your weekend and spent some time outside enjoying this awesome weather! Its time to get back at it!
This week you will have a number of "practices" to complete (7 to be exact). But don't fret (worry) just yet because you have some options!
Each day you will be responsible for submitting at LEAST two assignments. (two are due each day)
In Modules, the options include the following:
1. The grammar and tense review (all must complete this one)
2. two listening practices
3. two reading practices
4. two speaking practices.
5. Work on your Mini-Research Paper!
Remember, select only two of each under the assignment tab! Mr. McNulty and myself will be around to help!
Good Luck A May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor!

Top of the morning to you (Good morning),
hope you all had a great weekend and spent some time enjoying the awesome weather! Now its time to get back at it, so happy Monday!
For this week there are several "practices" that will be due! Read this carefully so that you can ask questions.
There are seven practices all together. Each day, you are required to submit at least TWO. One day, you will want to submit three, since there are seven.
In Modules, you will complete the following:
1. grammar and tense review
2. Two reading activities
3. Two listening activities
4. Two speaking activities!
Don't fret (worry), because you have some options!
You will select two from each assignment tab and Mr. McNulty and myself will be around to help!
GoOd LuCk AnD mAy ThE oDdS bE eVeR iN yOuR fAvOr!

Good morning! Hope you all are having a great week. We have made it through the Cultural Festival and now its time to shift gears.
Here is what we are doing today:
1. Short Grammar Activity (Due today for a grade)
2. Review objectives and refresher on the mini-research paper
3. Mini-Research Paper
4. Check out Cultural Festival Photos!

Good morning all, hope you all had a great weekend and got some rest because today is a busy day. Today is the Cultural Festival, starting at 6:00 pm; so if you have not decided how you are going to represent your cultural background, make that your priority today. Then, think about who you can invite or how you can volunteer to help.
Here is what is on our agenda for today:
1. If you have not already done so, Record your Script!!!!!!!
2. Cultural Festival Video Editing
3. Cultural Festival Posters
4. If you are done with everything and have extra time, revisit your mini research paper and begin working on that again.
Lets get it done today!

Its Friday! Hope everyone has had a great first week back from Break. Today is a busy day; today is the last day to submit your scripts and to get your presentation recorded.
So here is our to do list:
1. "Story Time"-Opener
2. Finish Script and SUBMIT! (Today is the last day to submit your written script. Remember, the written script is a REQUIRED submission and will be graded. If you have not already made this available to us through Google Drive, check your email. You have an email from Mr. McNulty, which you can follow to Google Drive and create a NEW document, LABELED your name, and PASTED your paper to).
3. RECORD! (The recording is also due today! Once again, if you would not like your presentation to be a part of the Cultural Festival Video, please let me or Mr. McNulty know. You are still required to submit to myself and Mr. McNulty the video; however, it will only be used as part of the project grade, and kept out of the Cultural Festival Video).
4. Check out the discussion board to confirm, change or cancel your commitment to bringing a dish of food on Tuesday, April 17th.

Good morning everyone, hope your first week back is going well!
Today we have a few things to cover:
1. Mini interviews: each of you will write two cultural questions and then be asked to speak to each student in the class and write down their responses.
2. Discussion: The Cultural Festival and the Community Connections Fair.
3. Script Writing: This is DUE TODAY! If you have not began recording today, your script must still be submitted by the end of the hour!
4. Recording: As soon as you are finished with your script, come find me or Mr. McNulty, so that we can get your script recorded. This will be edited on Friday! All recording MUST be done by Friday!
Important Note: If you are not sure about what types of dance, food or music are traditional to your country, you can look it up! Do a little research! However, REMEMBER, you are not allowed to copy and paste information. Make it YOUR OWN WORDS, and CITE the information. To cite information you can go to easybib.com! Ask one of us if you need help.

Good morning, all. In addition to the Cultural Festival next Tuesday night, the PHM-ENL Department is hosting a Community Connections Fair next Saturday, April 21st. at Walt Disney Elementary School. Here is the flyer: Community Connections Flyer.pdf
Ms. Wolfgang, Ms. Fleetwood, and I will all be there, and we hope you can come too. It is an excellent opportunity to get involved. We hope that you choose to do so.
Please speak with your parents about this event. We will hand out flyers today as well. Also, please fill out this form to let us know if you can come. We hope that you can! Thanks! -Mr. McNulty
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Good morning, all, and welcome back! I hope you had a nice weekend. I imagine the weather helped you catch up on your sleep! 🙂 Before we begin, can two of you please share this agenda with Shania & Mrs. Nay (our Sub.)?
Here are a couple things I would like you to accomplish today.
1. ReadTheory.org: you are doing a fine job in this program! As a class, you have taken 375 quizzes, you have built 7,415 knowledge points, and your program average Lexile level is 454. You should be proud of those numbers. Most of you are working very hard, and you are beating the other class in quizzes and knowledge points.
Beginning with ReadTheory Quiz #6, there are some new requirements. We have a goal to reach in December, and this is how we are going to do it. Please begin today!
2. The Great Pumpkin Storyboard- you are doing a fine job with it, but I cannot give you feedback on your writing unless they are turned in using Google Drive and the SHARE link. Please remember to make me an editor. That will allow me to give you feedback like this:
Please work with your partner to make necessary changes and resubmit it.
3. Mindplay. For the remainder of the class, please commit to getting your two hours of Mindplay done.
4. Kingsman Tutor- I believe Gabby will be in today, so please meet with her if you were scheduled to meet with her last Thursday or today. Check the calendar on my desk. You may also sign up to meet with her later in the week.
Have a nice day. I will write to you again on Wednesday.
Best,
Mr. McNulty

Good morning, all, and happy Wednesday! You are halfway through the week.
Here are a couple things I would like you to accomplish today.
1. ReadTheory.org: you are doing a fine job in this program! As a class, you have now taken 393 quizzes, you added over 300 knowledge points yesterday to get to 7,783 knowledge points, and your Lexile average ticked up to 455. Nice work! Most of you are working very hard, and you are still beating the other class in quizzes and knowledge points.
As you now know, beginning with ReadTheory Quiz #6, there are some new requirements. My birthday party is a goal for December, and working on it each day will get us there. So please begin class today with 30 minutes of work on ReadTheory.org.
2. The Great Pumpkin Storyboard- you are doing a fine job with it. A couple more came in Tuesday. As I told you then, please be sure you are using Google Drive and the SHARE link to turn it in. Please remember to make me an editor. That will allow me to give you feedback like this:
Please work with your partner to make necessary changes and resubmit it.
3. Now, on your own, with no partner, all by yourself, going solo, please complete the Second Great Pumpkin Assignment.
4. Mindplay. For the remainder of the class, please commit to getting your two hours of Mindplay (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. done.
5. Kingsman Tutor- I understand Gabby had a quiz she had to to take on Tuesday, so there may be a few of you who need to see her. Please meet with her if you can, in an order that you work together to determine (which is fair). If you were scheduled to meet with her last Thursday or this past Tuesday, you should have priority. Check the calendar on my desk. You may also sign up to meet with her later in the week.
Have a nice day. I will write to you again on Wednesday.
Best,
Mr. McNulty

Wow, this month sure is going fast! Let's try to make the most of what time we have left.
1. Welcome back EJ! Let's see some pictures and videos from your trip to India!
2. Readtheory.org update: check you guys out! You are doing great!
3. Ms. Armstrong will come for the second half of class, and she will help you work through the Resource Note-Taking Assignment.
4. When you have the resource-note-taking well in hand, then you can complete the Research Question Assignment. Some of you are working on it for Ms. Duvall's class. Let's unpack it and see what she is looking for.
3. Now let's do that assignment and turn it in here for me and in Google Classroom for her.
4. Let's read and discuss Upfront Magazine. (Newsroom145)
5. Here's a little something from the funny pages:

Good afternoon--yes, Afternoon! This is our second 2-hour delay due to weather this week. I hope none of you have to deal with flooding in your homes. If so, please let me know. I have been running down by the river, and all I can say is, "wow."
1. Because we have a shortened period today, let's consider one of these options:
A. Some reading on the 2018 Winter Olympics. They are about to end, and we have only talked about them a little. This NY Times film will help our discussion along. We might discuss, Kim Jung Un and his sister, the shared Korean Olympics history, and whether the Olympics are a place for politics or not.
B. Meeting our deadline with the Resource Note-Taking Assignment.
C. Readtheory.org update:
D. To Kill a Mockingbird, en Espanol!
E. from the funny pages, compliments of http://www.gocomics.com/bignate

Good morning, and welcome back!
1. Nice work on ReadTheory; still climbing. Is 550 possible by the party?
1. B. Party-planning
2. Upfront Magazine. Let's finish Removing the Veil, talk about it a bit, and complete this assignment.
3. In PNN, I would like to interview Cynthia, Shehed, and Bukola.
4. Hopefully Gabby will return to us today.

Good morning, all. In addition to the Cultural Festival next Tuesday night, the PHM-ENL Department is hosting a Community Connections Fair next Saturday, April 21st. at Walt Disney Elementary School. Here is the flyer: Community Connections Flyer.pdf
Ms. Wolfgang, Ms. Fleetwood, and I will all be there, and we hope you can come too. It is an excellent opportunity to get involved. We hope that you choose to do so.
Please speak with your parents about this event. We will hand out flyers today as well. Also, please fill out this form to let us know if you can come. We hope that you can! Thanks! -Mr. McNulty
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Wow, you moved your Lexile level up SIX points! That is the biggest jump yet! That is awesome progress! I am very proud. Since we met on Tuesday, you took more than fifty quizzes! Here, take a look:
Good work, kiddos! Keep up the good work! Please work on ReadTheory.org for a half an hour today.
2. How ya doing with Mindplay? I think a few of your have some work to do here. Here is a look at your numbers for this week:
Please spend a little time getting caught up for this week on Mindplay. Please dedicate a half an hour to it as well.
3. Please finish The Great Pumpkin, Scene 2 or 3 and turn it in today.
4. If there is time at the end of class, the latest edition of Upfront Magazine is out. Check it out! Please read Wheels of Progress first. You can then take this quiz.

Good morning, kiddos! Welcome back to school.
1. Let's begin today with a reading of today's newspaper. It is a new resource that I am sharing with you, and you will find them here. You will find the comics on page A10. Enjoy!
2. Readtheory.org; keep up the pace, kiddos! We have fallen off a bit.
3. Let's wrap up our first resource note-taking document and begin another. You will need more than one resource to understand your subject very well.
4. The latest issue of Upfront Magazine is also available.

Good morning. I hope you are enjoying this unexpected snow day. However, please remember that it is an eLearning day. What that means is you are going to receive assignments from your Gold day teachers through Canvas or Google Classroom. It is important that you complete those assignments too. In the eLearning model, your completion of those assignments factors into the district attendance. Therefore, please meet the deadlines of those assignments. Of course, you can also work on assignments for my class to keep up or get ahead.
If you need help, I will be available all day. You can email me or use Google Hangouts to chat with me for a quicker messaging system. Good luck and keep in touch! -Mr. McNulty
Image courtesy of familycircus.com.

Good morning everyone, hope your first week back is going well!
Today we have a few things to cover:
1. Mini interviews: each of you will write two cultural questions and then be asked to speak to each student in the class and write down their responses.
2. Discussion: The Cultural Festival and the Community Connections Fair.
3. Script Writing: This is DUE TODAY! If you have not began recording today, your script must still be submitted by the end of the hour!
4. Recording: As soon as you are finished with your script, come find me or Mr. McNulty, so that we can get your script recorded. This will be edited on Friday! All recording MUST be done by Friday!
Important Note: If you are not sure about what types of dance, food or music are traditional to your country, you can look it up! Do a little research! However, REMEMBER, you are not allowed to copy and paste information. Make it YOUR OWN WORDS, and CITE the information. To cite information you can go to easybib.com! Ask one of us if you need help.

Good morning everyone, and welcome back from Spring Break! I hope that you all enjoyed your time off.
This week is going to be pretty busy, as we prepare for the Cultural Celebration, which is next Tuesday, April 17th!
Here is the agenda for today:
1. Welcome Back! I want to hear about all of the fun things you did last week!
2. Cultural Festival Presentations- See "Cultural Festival" Module for directions.
3. Research Drafts- if you have not submitted a rough draft of your mini research paper, please do so today!

Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome back!
1. How was your weekend? Let's discuss as well as rescheduling the end-of-the-year party (see calendar below);
2. Your last film for 2018. Please upload your Cultural Festival film to Google Drive and turn it in here.
3. Modern Day Slavery Quiz; (to help you with the quiz, you might make a copy of this guide (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and complete it.)
4. Writer's Workshop: editing your research papers & preparing the presentation;
5. Creating your research presentations...your last project of the year! We will schedule them today.

Good afternoon, youngsters! Did you hear those storms last night? Whew!
1. Update on Correta
2. Continuing the goals conference with me
4. Wrapping up a research project that includes:
a. Draft 01 (not Draft 02...that is due later)
b. its outline
c. this discussion if you forgot to do it.
d. your thesis statement
e. and your note-taking
5. Returning to Read Theory
6. Returning to the World Report

Good afternoon, kiddos. Let's get a couple of things done before we get out there on this beautiful day!
1. A letter to a friend
2. A letter to some parents
3. A goals conference with me
4. A research project that includes:
a. Draft 01 (not Draft 02...that is due later)
b. its outline
c. this discussion if you forgot to do it.
d. your thesis statement
e. and your note-taking